You should play with what you're most comfortable with. Fanatiq is one of the best fighting game players of all time and he's been using pads this entire time because he's more comfortable with them. While I dislike pads, that's simply because I've never encountered a directional pad on a controller that has felt usable to me. But sticks aren't the true way to play fighting games, the true way to play is with something that suits you and your playstyle best.

You should play with what you're most comfortable with. Fanatiq is one of the best fighting game players of all time and he's been using pads this entire time because he's more comfortable with them. While I dislike pads, that's simply because I've never encountered a directional pad on a controller that has felt usable to me. But sticks aren't the true way to play fighting games, the true way to play is with something that suits you and your playstyle best.

Alright you are correct but sticks feels better for fast combos and the "tap tap tap tap tap" of the big colorful buttons is quite nice to me

But play station and SNES controllers are pretty good too for fighting games.